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Salem Junior High Spartans are strong in Body, Heart, and Mind. Our Bodies are actively engaged in school sports, extracurricular activities, and keeping ourselves physically healthy. Our Hearts advocate for respect and loyalty among our peers, teachers, staff, and administrators. Our Minds are innovative, open, and driven to strive for academic excellence and critical thinking.

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Students of the month for October standing with Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Mecham

The students of the month for October were announced today. These students have been working hard and impressing their teachers. It's always great for kids to know that their teachers notice the good things they are doing. Be sure to congratulate them if you see them.

Mr. Haight is a teacher here at salem junior high school. He has teached english here for two years and he has been teaching for five years total. He is married and has two kids. He likes going to concerts, playing guitar, watching movies, reading, playing video games, and writing. He likes teaching here because of the students and the other teachers. Something he says everyone should know about him is he is writing a novel.

This year in ninth grade, teachers are teaching students about the growth mindset! The growth mindset has a lot to do with grit. It’s teaching us that even if we’re bad at something now, there’s always room to grow and become better! I love this because it helps me a lot when I’m doing my homework. When I’m sick of doing homework, I just remember grit and it helps me through. We do a lot of assignments on the growth mindset. Learning to not have a fixed mindset. I love this!

Attention! The fall after school clubs are now in session! Get signed up pronto! The school has provided a great selection of different clubs to join, so make sure to take a look at what clubs there are, because it’s probably a pretty high chance that one of them will peak your interest! Make sure to start signing up fast, with some of them, there are a limited amount of spots available. Different activities are available on different days of the week so make sure to refer to the chart below to see which days and activities work best for you and your schedule!

I’ve personally tried the knitting one, it’s super fun! So make sure to go see Mrs. Betteridge for information and sign ups!

Last Friday was the Salem Skyhawks V.S. Spanish Fork Dons. It was a really good game because they're rivals so it will be a good game no matter what. At the football games the junior high kids hang out and have a really good time with one another. And all the elementary kids play football or boys chase girls and have a good time as well. There’s a snack shack that has really good food, so you don’t have to worry about that. Football games are really important to me because the whole community comes together to a good game of football. Coming into this game I thought we were going to win but… We lost 38 to 30 it was a pretty good game but we totally gave them the win. Although Skyhawks didn’t win we all came together. I love football and i especially love living in salem.

Recently, Mr. Bell’s 8th grade science class began to do their experiments/labs. They studied chemical and physical properties of household ingredients, such as flour, sugar, sodium, etc. They did a variety of tests ranging from seeing how they reacted to peroxide or iodine, to putting them over an open flame and seeing the result. He then gave them a mixture of the substances, and told them to figure out what ingredients were in it. The ending goal was to use their knowledge of the chemical and physical properties of each of the substances to figure out what ingredients were in the mixture. And they totally rocked the safety goggles too! :)

The Salem Junior High shakespeare team will be traveling, September 28 to the 30. They’re going to Cedar City. They will miss 2 days of school, and 3 days in total. They will compete in ensemble, monologue, scenes, and tech olympics. They also get to see plays while they are there.

During the winter Mrs. Ashworth takes as many students who want to go to the Utah Theatre Association conference, in Ogden. You get to do workshops, have lunch, watch plays, and get a t-shirt. The auditions for shakespeare team are in the spring next year.

Choir uniform fees were due, back to Mr. Guthrie, on Friday 15, for the Chamber Singers, Bella Voce, and Concert Choir. Make sure you turn them in because you want to make sure you have a uniform for the concerts. To turn in your fees, you go to the finance office to pay them, then give Mr. Guthrie the receipt so he knows you paid the amount due.

You need the uniforms because we are getting to the point where we are going to do our first concert on October 17th and we have many more to come.

Diamond Fork Jr High invaded Spartan country on Tues, Sept 19, but they were repulsed by our varsity and JV tennis teams. The varsity squad took four of five matches, only dropping the #2 doubles spot. The JV team swept all five matches. The coaches say that the girls will have to keep working hard and not let the win get to their heads because stiffer challenges remain, but they are proud of the team and happy with their performance.

Match of the day goes to Emilee Nicholls who played very well against a hard hitting opponent in the #2 singles spot.